An historic and oft-filmed spot for musclebound iron pumpers on the Pacific coast.

After starting as a whimsical tourist attraction that eventually found its way to ruin, these renovated canals offer a lush and exotic locale on the Pacific Coast.

A former waterfront market is now in the center of town due to some interesting Boston engineering.

This massive tea kettle was once a promotional stunt for the Oriental Teashop.

Mrs. Mallard and her brood are a beloved fixture in Boston Public Garden.

Two thousand artifacts from around the world collected by one woman who loved to travel.

A quiet marker in memory of local men and women lost in WWI.

Perfect your fly fishing technique on their practice ponds.

Approximately 250,000 people left homeless by the great earthquake and fires found shelter in Golden Gate Park.

Chevron maintains one “Standard” brand station per state so it doesn’t lose the trademark.

Art in the form of a winding, man made crack in stone.

This grinning pup statue is all that's left of what was once a ubiquitous Bay Area diner chain.

One of the last remnants of the city's Chinese nightclub scene is now a dive bar selling killer mai tais.

A modern mechanical planetary system, part of a 10,000 year clock.

There is no trying to fall in love with this Star Wars fountain, you just do or do not.

A huge musical instrument played by the ocean.

Concrete strongholds stand guard over the Golden Gate.

A burnt orange monolithic dome structure perched on a hillside near Interstate 280.

Visible below the waves are memorials to the city's Gold Rush dead.

A four paneled, brightly multicolored mosaic adorns the side of this popular grocery store.

Once the fastest ship from San Francisco to Tahiti, the Galilee now lays in pieces in three different cities.

This residential door allows San Francisco muggles a glimpse at the wizarding world.

The seawater playground of gilded-era San Francisco burned to the ground in 1966.

Standing in for the first ship to navigate the Northwest Passage.